For a graded ring , consists of homogeneous prime ideals not containing the irrelevant ideal . Its standard affine opens satisfy .
If a nonnegatively graded ring is generated by as an -algebra, the standard affine opens of Proj with cover . Indeed a homogeneous prime containing every degree-one element would contain the irrelevant ideal of a graded ring. This condition makes all twisting sheaves on Proj invertible and makes graded sheafification compatible with tensor products of sheaves.
A graded module over a graded ring determines a quasi-coherent sheaf on the Proj construction by taking the degree-zero part of its localization on each standard affine open of Proj. Localization identifies these module sheaves on overlaps. The construction is exact, by exactness of localization and exactness of taking a fixed graded component.
Under the degree-one generation condition for Proj, cover by degree-one charts. The degree-one localization of a graded module identifies the two local modules in the displayed formula, using localization commutes with tensor products. The maps are natural and agree on overlaps, so they glue to an isomorphism of sheaves of modules. The analogous assertion can fail for general positively graded rings.
With the graded shift convention , this is the sheaf associated with a graded module . Under the degree-one generation condition for Proj, it is an invertible sheaf: on with , multiplication by freely generates its local module for every integer . Without that hypothesis, it need not be invertible. The twisting sheaf on projective space is the standard special case. Stacks Project, Section 27.10 records the hypotheses and local trivializations.
For a nonnegatively graded ring , the irrelevant ideal is
The points of are precisely the homogeneous prime ideals that do not contain .
For a positive-degree homogeneous element , the standard open
is the affine scheme .
A graded homomorphism induces a morphism to on the open subset of where the inverse image of a prime does not contain . On it is induced by .
If a graded homomorphism is an isomorphism in every sufficiently large degree, then it induces an isomorphism
Multiplying degree-zero localized fractions by a sufficiently large power of the chart denominator reduces the claim to the assumed high-degree isomorphisms.
For a quasi-coherent graded -algebra , the relative Proj is obtained by gluing the schemes over affine open subsets . If is of finite type and generated in degree one, a surjection realizes as a closed subscheme of the projective bundle .
For a nonnegatively graded ring and , its th Veronese subring is
graded by . Passing from to does not change its projective scheme: the standard affine charts give a canonical isomorphism .
The degree- Veronese embedding sends a projective point to all monomials of degree in its homogeneous coordinates. For example,
is a closed immersion with image the conic .

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